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  1. Lord knows what OU's defense will look like in 2022. Too early for hand wringing for 2023 when OU's turning over a coaching staff and roster and will be changing NIL.
  2. The discussion was prompted by this guy. There was a crystal ball to Arkansas several days ago. Please see above post for details.
  3. I agree. That's why I said "I hope you're right" and that 2 of 3 stated issues were "TBD." And why I'm not understanding their strategy RE: portal WR. They only have 9 WR including 2 true Fr and 4 Fr/So. The 4 Fr/So all together caught 20 balls! If the OU coaches are planning on using Braden Willis as a WR, that would give them another experienced capable WR, but it steals from a thin TE room.
  4. I hope you're right. It seemed like he had several complaints, all rational: 1. Not enough NIL 2. Not enough playing time: it seems OU WR coach had a every other series substitution rule. Which is ridiculous if true. 3. Not enough targets, which definitely true (I think he got ~ 4 targets/game) Only one of these could definitely be solved right now (NIL). The others would be TBD. Lebby's system tends to get the ball to playmakers so there is that. Please correct me, because it could be my crimson-colored bias, but I think, based on production and displayed ability, he'd be the top portal WR if he entered. If this assumption is true, he could wait until May and go where he wants.
  5. For OU in 2022, Trigg may be more important than Dart so this is not good news for the Sooners. OU's lack of recruitment of WR is very puzzling. Mims could leave. Wease is coming off injury. That leaves Drake Stoops as your lone experienced WR. Of the Fr/So, Farooq has shown the most and is good friends with Caleb Williams so also has to be a portal risk. OU's been surprisingly quiet in their pursuit of portal WR. If the Sooner passing game is poor in 2022, the lack of WR experience would be a likely, predictable, unaddressed cause.
  6. @texifornia "Jesus, look at all that shit." I had literally 1 suitcase between 18-20 years old. His high school in DC (Gonzaga) is very fancy dancy and 25k/yr.
  7. And superspreader events! I was wondering if that was you!
  8. Big fan of fossil fuels, race riots, or both?
  9. Top Oklahoma kids generally go to OU or out-of-state UNLESS there are extenuating circumstances. Below is a list of 4-stars from Oklahoma over the last 5 years who didn't go to OU. During this time, 15 guys fit that criterion. OkSt's got 5. Out of those four, 2 had extenuating circumstances (*) and 2 were overrated as 4-stars (^), and 1 can't remember at all and he flamed out in 2 years. 2022 * OkSt (Pokes offered his brother when his brother is FCS level) UF, TxTech (overrated) 2021 * OkSt (wants to play DB but OU and A&M said LB only) Ark (wants to play RB but better at DB) ^ OkSt (best offer) 2020 Ark, Mizzou (overrated), Neb (overrated) 2019 Mich, Ark ^ OkSt (overrated; best offer) 2018 Ohio St, UTx (Casey Thompson ) OkSt (no recollection of the guy; he portaled to Wazzau in 2019)
  10. Lots of things against OU for this guy right now: - Wide angle: OU doesn't recruit Tulsa area well historically. New OU staff is supposedly making a concerted effort to get Okla kids to OU. - Medium angle: Pretty ideal for the HB role that OU's used well going back ~ 15 yrs but apparently Lebby isn't interested in that. - Macro: His mom is an Arkansas alum who has been strongly pushing the Hogs. OU has a poor history of recruiting Tulsa. A lot of this is TBD. Will OU really focus on Oklahoma recruiting more? Historically, of the top players OU's recruited (4-star or better) they've gotten ~ the same number from CA and OK. Hit rate for those recruits is ~ 40% from both states, surprisingly. In the short-term, I think Riley-SC and Lanning-Oregon are going to make it harder to pull top guys from CA so the focus on OK makes sense. What does OU's offense look like next year? Who knows! They have about the same number of experienced WR (3) as TE (2, one of whom is a transfer) so TE may get a disproportionate number of targets. Will a high school kid like his mom a year from now?
  11. The attached image is a post from Dec 30. OU - Caleb Williams have been done for more than 2 weeks. Everything else is for clicks. Also shown is the anticipated "outreach" to Gabriel. The rest of the post has my hand wringing about Mario Williams, Mike Woods, and the rest of the WR room. I also project the issues on the DL (where OU's since taken 2 portal guys and lost out on a 3rd) and the portaling out of yound DBs (McCutchin so far). Predictions that haven't panned out (yet) have been portal outs of OL and more DBs. I anticipate they'll happened in the next couple of weeks or so or post spring practice. Receipts.
  12. PFF leadership has been on podcasts and indicated they're aware of the variability of their college football player and unit rankings weakness. Good evaluation systems are a significant blindspot for college athletics. I few years ago, I approached the vox/SBNation people about an idea to address this, but they weren't interested. Certainly the major leagues (NFL, NBA, etc), rival sports teams, and fans would be interested in standardized player evaluations. As Had Enough said, standardized is the key word. There are/were technology solutions for some of this (think 2nd spectrum for football), but a lot would still be manual. mgoblog's FFF and UFR are examples of how laborious it is to actually do this, but there are economies of scale to be had.
  13. PFF's grading for NFL is pretty uniform and good. Outside of the basics of snap count and targets for WR, there metrics for college are wildly inconsistent and therefore unreliable. Apparently, they know this and are working on it, but it's hard because a lot of it requires significant trained human power.
  14. I have and will call out OU errors first. I never support OU keeping Mixon, then or now. More recently, I thought it was bad that OU brought in Turk last year (punter from Arizona) and Lebby this year. And have said so. Regardless, be better than OU fans. Hold Gundy accountable for keeping Brown by making sure the consequences of the arrangement are met. Brown can grow from this and be a great person. There are ready examples for his: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/sports/larry-miller-nike-book.html Don't deflect.
  15. Until this year, OU'd had almost a decade of subpar (at best) DB play under two different regimes. The CB coach was a converted LB coach who would randomly insert players into the lineup. Similarly, UT had about a decade of forgettable WR (seriously, I remember being worried about no UT WR since 2008 - 09) under multiple head coaches. Now OU's got a defensive coach who's led several outstanding defenses. Assuming some defensive improvement in 2022, OU should start getting looks from top DBs recruits and Valai and Hall better close on them. Similarly, UT's new coach in 2021 was the OC of a team that had a WR win a Heisman, and then Worthy happened. The Horns should be getting top WR recruits, and they correctly fired their WR coach when he struck out on almost all of them.
  16. We're going to learn what Lebby strategy is with QB recruiting. He offered a kid from NoCal also.
  17. OU did offer Thomas but pulled it after he'd declared himself. OkSt kept recruiting him. You and @Go Pokes weirdly are don't understand that I brought up the Mixon fiasco as an example of showing you that acknowledging mistakes is good rather than bad.
  18. Hey...I did it right there. It's an example of owning a decision rather than deflecting.
  19. Nah, screw this "what-aboutism." As an OU fan, I know about player malfeasance and administrative error. For example, the Mixon fiasco was just that. A fiasco. OU should've kicked him off the team, and it would've been better for OU and Mixon. Admitting that your school is making a mistake doesn't make you less of a fan, but it allows you to maintain your principles. And I'm not saying that OkSt shouldn't have taken the guy. I'm all for context and second chances especially for young people, especially young Black people who've historically have gotten less than one chance. But don't justify anything by excusing poor behavior, life-taking behavior by saying it's okay because other people do it.
  20. @oSuJeff97 What about after Devon Thomas? Didn't Tyreek Hill have issue known issues pre-OkSt too?
  21. But that's the point. By getting someone else to coach CBs now, the SC coaches are admitting to lying the first time. If Manning was so great as a CB coach, why is he not coaching the position now? Why would you go play for a group who's lied to you once already? Regardless, unless @golfclap is right, that this is a McCutchin-specific situation, I impressed by the SC coaching staff's ability to hoodwink recruits.
  22. Maybe yes, but definitely Harsin's job is tenuous. So there's also a job security factor. Plus Gundy's had a history of empowering his assistants and giving them time. Even though OkSt loses a lot of defensive personnel, whoever takes the job knows that the last DC got 4 years to produce. And there is the thing that Auburn, AL = Stillwater, OK. Both view Olive Garden as fine dining.
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